Codetown ::: a software developer's community
18 members Latest Activity: Apr 13, 2020 What's up with .Net in your neck of the woods? We'll discuss all the basics here. Eventually, we'l break out separate groups for C#, etc...
23 members Latest Activity: Aug 23, 2012 Are you interested in social networks? We're talking about virtual communities here. Community builders use tools and techniques. We'll discuss them…
9 members Latest Activity: Oct 27, 2011 We've had a unique opportunity to speak with Brion Vibber recently at the October Orlandojug meeting. Let's discuss what we learned for those who…
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24 members Latest Activity: Jun 10, 2016 Have you got a great idea you'd like to put into action? This is the place for you! We'll talk about ideas and how to turn them into businesses here.
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Come join us here at the RDC JUG Town! Stanislas Matayo and the group in Kinshasa welcome you.
15 members Latest Activity: May 6, 2018 Ever wonder how Google Translate works? It's computational linguistics! Join us here and learn all about it and more. Jim White will be our guide.…
35 members Latest Activity: Jul 20, 2019 Android is an open Java-based platform to use for developing mobile apps. Do you believe mobile computing is the wave of the future? We do!
Codetown is a social network. It's got blogs, forums, groups, personal pages and more! You might think of Codetown as a funky camper van with lots of compartments for your stuff and a great multimedia system, too! Best of all, Codetown has room for all of your friends.
Created by Michael Levin Dec 18, 2008 at 6:56pm. Last updated by Michael Levin May 4, 2018.
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Grab updated its internal platform to monitor Apache Kafka data quality in real time. The system uses FlinkSQL and an LLM to detect syntactic and semantic errors. It currently tracks 100+ topics, preventing invalid data from reaching downstream users. This proactive strategy aligns with industry trends to treat data streams as reliable products.
By Patrick Farry
Serving Large Language Models (LLMs) at scale is complex. Modern LLMs now exceed the memory and compute capacity of a single GPU or even a single multi-GPU node. As a result, inference workloads for 70B+, 120B+ parameter models, or pipelines with large context windows, require multi-node, distributed GPU deployments.
By Claudio Masolo
Karrot replaced its legacy recommendation system with a scalable architecture that leverages various AWS services. The company sought to address challenges related to tight coupling, limited scalability, and poor reliability in its previous solution, opting instead for a distributed, event-driven architecture built on top of scalable cloud services.
By Rafal Gancarz
Sharing your work as a software engineer inspires others, invites feedback, and fosters personal growth, Suhail Patel said at QCon London. Normalizing and owning incidents builds trust, and it supports understanding the complexities. AI enables automation but needs proper guidance, context, and security guardrails.
By Ben LindersThe article shares goals and strategies for scaling cloud and distributed applications, focusing on lessons learned from cloud migration at Chase.com at JP Morgan Chase. The discussion centers on three primary goals and the strategies addressing the goals, concluding how these approaches were achieved in practice. For those managing large-scale systems, these lessons provide valuable guidance!
By Durai Arasan
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